India News: NEW DELHI: Just over two years ago, farmer unions who had been protesting at Delhi borders for nearly 16 months, finally called off their stir after M.
The farmer movement has undergone various splits and formations of new organizations. Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) remains intact but has experienced splinters. Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) formed and later merged with SKM. Various other groups like BKU (Ekta Ugrahan), BKU (Ekta Sidhupur), BKU (Ekta Dakaunda), Sanyukt Sangharsh Party, SKM (Non-political), and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have emerged.
Being a purely religious body, by getting involved into the farmers agitation, which comprises farmers from all religions and castes, the SGPC is going completely against the mandate given to it under The Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 and Punjab Act 8 of 1925 .
On International Women’s Day, women from Punjab reached Tikri on Delhi-Haryana border on to join the ongoing farmers’ protest. A protestor said, “We urge the Central Government to roll back the three black laws.” Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three newly enacted farm laws - Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.International Women’s Day: Women take helm of Farmers protest at Tikri Border
Trust deficit, difference of opinion hit farmers protest
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At the Singhu border, the first protest camp is of Punjab-based Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) of Satnam Singh Pannu, the organisation which has been blamed for deviating from the parade route. It led the rail roko movement last September. Even after other unions decided to let passenger trains to operate, KMSC continued to block the tracks.
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The farmer leaders put the blame on Satnam Singh Pannu (not in picture), leader of the KMSC, for the violence in Delhi during the tractor rally
New Delhi: Differences and lack of trust among farmers’ unions have made it difficult for them to manage the narrative and the protest at Delhi’s borders. Though the unions have kept a distance from political parties, differences between the unions have posed a problem for them.